Abstract:Critiques of the misconstrued thesis of Garrett Hardin's (1968) classic essay entitled The Tragedy of the Commons from the futility of technical solution for overpopulation crisis to concern of managing the commons are well documented. However, little is known of the remote and proximate causes of the pejorative confusion about the important essay. This article engages the discursive reconstruction of Hardin's thesis focussing on the original intent, which is the unscrupulousness of unchecked human breeding as… Show more
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